Mother of woman who died after delayed abortion care speaks out at Harris-Oprah event: ‘Amber was not a statistic’ - ‘You’re looking at a mother that is broken’ she told the Harris-Oprah audience

It’s Amber Nicole Thurman. She was 28 and worked as a medical assistant and had a 6-year-old son whom she loved to take to petting zoos and the beach. As was horribly predictable, in a country where Black women seek abortions at higher rates and die far more commonly from maternal-health complications,

Thurman, 28, experienced a rare complication after taking abortion pills and died during emergency surgery in August 2022, ProPublica reported.